"They say it wasn't the fellows who were in the roomsome of them put the gas out; but it was a lot of other chaps, who rushed in after, who did all the damage and caused such 'ructions.'

" I said I knew numbers of perfect dears married in England, and he said, "Maybe, maybe, but if there comes a ruction, they won't grin and bear it in silence on account of the family as you would, they will take it into the courts, and come out on top, too; but it causes a talk and that is not good for prestige.

I reckon maybe dat's why he quit bein' a Democratic an' started ructions wid Mr. Gully.

"Every time the women raise ructions it sets me thinking of her.